Dec 19, 2009

Rabbit, Run | Author Biography

"I'm a publishing fool, so anything I did not publish must be pretty bad," John Updike told Michael Rogers in Library Journal, and indeed, Updike is widely regarded as one of America's most prolific novelists.

John Bemrose wrote in Maclean's, "For almost 40 years, Updike has catalogued the growing and aging pains of America's middle class with such tireless virtuosity and boyish effervescence that it sometimes seems he has drunk from the fountain of youth." Updike, who was born on March 18, 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania, had what Bemrose called a "secure,...